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September 14, 2009
Stage Centre Productions’ Artistic Director, L. Garth Allen, today announced the plays which will make up the company’s 33rd season of theatrical classics. It will include Noël Coward’s Private Lives, Tennessee Williams’ Summer and Smoke, George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s The Threepenny Opera. The season ranges from the hilarious to the compelling, the suspenseful to the shocking.
As Artistic Director Allen explains, “We’re producing five of the greatest and most profound twentieth century playwrights. We shall theatrically travel from Mississippi to London, from Toronto to New England, with laughter and tears, and dreams and hope - a true buffet of emotions with something to please and to stimulate everyone.”
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Stage Centre Productions, under the founding artistic leadership of L. Garth Allen, is a 60-person strong repertory company of Toronto area artists committed to presenting the classics from the world theatrical canon.
PRIVATE LIVES
by Noël Coward“…[Noël] Coward is most seriously good when he is funniest.” New York Times
October 1 – October 17, 2009
Amanda and Elyot can’t live together and they can’t live apart. When they discover they are honeymooning in the same hotel with their new spouses, they not only fall in love all over again, they learn to hate each other all over again. A comedy with a dark underside, fireworks fly as each character yearns desperately for love. Full of wit and razor sharp dialogue, Private Lives remains one of the most successful and popular comedies ever written.
SUMMER AND SMOKE
by Tennessee Williams"The innocent and the damned, the lonely and the frustrated, the hopeful and the hopeless . . . (Williams) brings them all into focus with an earthy, irreverently comic passion." Newsweek.
November 19 – December 5, 2009
One of Williams’ most highly regarded works! The play is a simple love story between a somewhat puritanical young Southern girl and an un-puritanical young doctor. However, they find themselves caught between the dictates of their environments, and the dictates of their hearts.
PYGMALION
by George Bernard Shaw“The most brilliant comedy of the century.” Times of London
January 14 - January 30, 2010
One of Shaw’s finest plays, and a source of theatre-audience delight for over a hundred years! It achieved further distinction when adapted into the stunning musical, My Fair Lady. Phonetics expert, Henry Higgins, wagers he can transform flower girl, Cockney Eliza Doolittle, into a lovely lady of high society.
WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
by Edward Albee“Albee can...be placed high among the important dramatists of the contemporary world theatre.” New York Post
March 11 – March 27, 2010
Husband college faculty member George, and president’s daughter Martha have learned to survive within the world and within their relationship. A young faculty couple arrive as guests. They have yet come to terms with their existence, but in one evening George and Martha teach them all they know. Sparkling dialogue and emotional fireworks imbued with brilliant psychological and sociological insight. Absolutely riveting!
THE THREEPENNY OPERA (musical)
by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill,English adaptation by Marc Blitzstein
“The greatest musical of all time.” Newsweek
May 6 – May 23, 2010
Mack the Knife marries Polly Peachum which displeases her father who controls the beggars of London, and he endeavours to have Mack hanged. His moves are hindered in that Tiger Brown, the chief of police, is Mack’s childhood friend. Exerting his influence he eventually gets Mack arrested and sentenced to hang. Moments before the execution a messenger from the “Queen” arrives with an unexpected message which gives rise to the question, “Who is the bigger criminal: he who robs a bank or he who founds one?”
TICKETS: Adults $25, Senior $20, Students $15
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LOCATION: Fairview Public Library Theatre, 35 Fairview Mall Drive, North York, Ontario. Steps away from the Don Mills Subway Station on the Sheppard Line. Lots of free parking. Wheelchair access and hearing devices available.
Stage Centre Productions is a full repertory theatre company dedicated and devoted to presenting a wide cross-section of the classics of theatre history. Stage Centre has performed at the Fairview Library Theatre for thirty-two seasons and is now performing their thirty-third season, which opens on October 1, 2009. Each season, five plays that are tried and true literary classics are performed under the artistic direction of L. Garth Allen. The company constructs all of the sets, costumes, wigs and properties required for each production at its rehearsal workshop.
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